Combined nail holding and spacing means.



A. c. FISCHER. COMBINED NAIL HOLDING AND SPACING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 12. 1916.

Patented. Apr. 16, 19l&

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COMBINED NAIL HOLDING- AN D SPACIN G MEAN S.

' Application filed December 12,1916. Serial No.

To all/whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ALBERT C. FISCHER, a citizen of the United States,residing atv Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State ofMissouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CombinedNail Holding and Spacing Means, of which the following is aspecification.

Thisinvention relates to a combined nail holding andspacing strip andhas for one of its objects tdprovide convenient means for holding nails,pins or similar impaling ob ects which are to be driven by use of ahammer or similar tool, so that the time, or a considerable partthereof, required by a workman in picking up, placing or spotting thenails may be saved.

Another. object isto provide means by use of which nails, when driven,may; appear m straight lines, horizontal or otherwise, and will beuniformly spaced. Still another object is to provide for the mounting ofthe nails, an adhesive so arranged that when the nail has, been driven hme, the adhesive may have a bearing under e nail head and will partlyfill the puncture produced by the nail, this being of advantage uponbuildings where shingles or roofing sheets are employed.

The invention includes a new article of manufacture consisting of rolls,packages or spools of flexible strips, each strip'being provided atlongitudinal intervals with nails, pins, brads or the like, these beingdisposed transversely of and connected with one of the sides of thestrip by means of suitable adhesive material.

-With the foregoing objects in view and others to be hereinaftermentioned, the in ventlon presents a novel construction, combination andarrangement of parts as described herein and claimed, and as illustratedin the accompanying drawing,.where- 1n,

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a flexible strip with nails orbrads adhesively connected therewith, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of thesame. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Figs. 4and 5 are broken away, perspective views, respectively, of sheet roofingand shingles employed in roof construction, illustrating use of thedevice for disposing the nails in alinement and at uniform distancesfrom each other. Fig. 6 a broken away view showmg parts of a roof board,a flexible roofing Specification of Letters Patent.

. may be secured to'the strip byany suitable Patented Apr. is, rare.

sheet, a driven nail, and impacted adhesive material, to illustrate oneof the uses of the invention. Fig. 7 illustrates a modified form ofmounting for the flexible ,strip. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section online 8-8 of ,Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a perspective view showing the preferredmanner of use of the flexible nail-bearing and spacing-strip.

now to the drawing, numeral Referring a flexible strip of any suitable10 indicates material and nails, brads or other impaling objects 11mounted thereon.

The invention is particularly useful in building construction forsecuring fiber roofing sheets 12 or shingles 14 upon a roof 13 asillustrated in Figs. 4 and 5.

In the Work of covering a roof and nailing the sheets 12 thereon asheretofore practised, the brads or nails, on account'of a lack of meansor facilities for measuring, are often disposed at too great a distancefrom each other; also the fibrous sheets frequently become broken orpunctured by the nails being scattered thereon. and tram ed I brad ornail is not driven at right angles to I the roof boards. Also on accountof changes of the weather and particularly the effects of extreme heat,the nails or brads-become partly drawn or loosened. By use of the hereindescribed invention these objection- 95 which, in

able features may be avoided; and for securing composition shingleswidth, are uniform, the use of the-invention is of great advantage.

In carrying out the invention the nails means, the means herein shownbeing small portions of adhesive material 15 which connect the nailswith and'at uniform intervals upon one of the sides of the strip 10, theadhesive material, when the device is used in connectionl-with roofingsheets or shingles being of a kind which will be imperviops to theweather. In instances where it is desired that the nails, after beingdriven home, will be disnails are mounted upon the strips as shown ofany desired length, its width being somewhat less than the length of the85. I and the fingers while posed at right angles to the support, the

in Fig. 1, each nail being disposed at right partly surrounds a nail orbrad, the loop beangles to the strip 10, the lower ends of the ingformed by bending the strip and connails being disposed below the loweredge necting it by use of an adhesive materlal to Y of the strip so thatsaid edge will be mainother parts of the strip, said adhesive ma- 5tained above the support or roof boards,'to terial engaging the nail orbrad as above 40 facilitate operation, and by referring to Fig.mentioned. llhis modified form'jor means 9 it will be seen that anoperator by use of for a mounting of parts is considered to be a thumband finger may conveniently hold within the scope of the invention since0pthe strip in an uprlght position to cause the eration is practically.the same as described.

10 nails to be disposed in a corresponding po- What I claim as myinvention, and de- 45 sition, the fingers not obtruding, so that suc-fsire to secure by Letter Patent 1s,- cessive blows may be deliveredwithout Wait- Lin a new; article of manufacture, a

ing to p1ck up the nails, and by the means flexible strip, ad 'esivepieces disposed at described, the nails, when driven, may aplongitudinalintervals on the strip and adpear in alinement, and will be disposed athesively connected thereto, and a pluralitygso 'uniformdistances fromeach other. of impaling-members embedded in the ad- As'shown in Fig.6the adhesive material, hesive pieces tobe maintained transversely inpart, will be conducted by the nails to of said strip. operate asfillers 15 in any enlarged part of. 24in a new article of manufacture, a

the aperture when said nails are driven into flexible strip, adhesivepieces disposed at 55 the wood support 13, tending to prevent thelongitudinal intervals on one side of the nails from becoming loosenedofidrawnby strip and adhe'sively connected thereto, a sun-heat; and whenabrad or nail is driven plurality of impaling-membersembedded into asupport'13, a part 15" of the adhesive in the adhesive pieces andmaintained sub- 25 material will be moved upwardly and be: stantially atright angles to the strip to be 60 come packed below the head a, whichprodriven into a support, each 'impaling-mem tects the adjacent fibroussheet 12 and preher being provided with a head for convents rain ordampness from entering. ducting a part of an adhesive piece to said Thedistance apart for members 11 upon support when driven therein.

- the strips depends upon the usesof the de- In testimony whereof," Ihave aiiixed my 65 vice. As a new article of manufacture it is signaturein presence of two witnesses. furnished to the trade in packages, orrolls, A BERT C. FISCHER. ready for use, and may be mounted uponWitnesses: spools 16 for this purpose, if desired. I G. F. HANNOY, Figs.7 and 8 illustrate a loop 17 which O. H. Buonmr.

